Peaky Blinders gets a red carpet screening in its home city of Birmingham.

The stars from the show, including Tom Hardy and Cillian Murphy, will be in Brum at the Everyman Cinema at the Mailbox.

Paul Anderson, Packy Lee and the show's Birmingham-born writer Stephen Knight will also be present and it is promised they will arrive in "spectacular style".

Fans lucky enough to have nabbed tickets have been encouraged to dress in Peaky Blinders costume.

Steven Knight says: “I’m thrilled that the new series of Peaky Blinders will be screened in its heartland, Birmingham, and I hope the people of the city will enjoy the event. The third series is stronger than ever.”

Join us through the day and into the evening as we provide you with all the red carpet updates and gossip.

Guzzy Bear!

He tells us why he loves Peaky Blinders and why Cillian Murphy is “way cool.”

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At the scene

We are officially at the scene of the Peaky Blinders premiere in Birmingham.

Cillian Murphy and the rest will be with us before long.

Still no word on whether Tom Hardy will be there but we’ve got our fingers crossed.

In other very exciting news, they’re currently playing Red Right Hand over the speakers. Awesome tune.

16:45Luke Beardsworth

Red carpet

It’s all starting to take shape over on the red carpet!

We’ve got numerous people heading down, including our editor and executive editor (who is more excited than I’ve ever seen her).

The scene at the launch of the Peaky Blinders premier in Birmingham at the Mailbox.

There is some quite fantastic fancy dress going on. Kudos to everyone who made the effort.

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Who else will be on the carpet?

Paul Anderson

Don’t make Arthur angry, you wouldn’t like him when he’s angry. Tommy’s older brother has a terrible temper but is trying hard to keep it under control this series – and actor Paul is much calmer. A tip for spotting him on the red carpet – he’s grown a beard.

Kate Phillips

A new addition to the cast, she plays Arthur’s wife Linda and is the reason for him being calmer this series - he’s been helped by “the love of a good woman”, Kate was last seen in War and Peace and played Jane Seymour in Wolf Hall.

Kate Phillips (Linda Shelby)

Gaite Jansen

She plays Duchess Tatiana Petrovna, the new glamorous Russian aristocrat in exile in Britain. She is a go-between for her uncle the Duke and Tommy, who is getting mixed up with “very, very dangerous people”. Gaite is actually Dutch.

Gaite Jansen as Duchess Tatiana Petrovna

Packy Lee

Packy plays Johnny Dogs, an Irishman good with horses and a reminder to Tommy of his gypsy past.

Packy Lee (Johnny Dogs)

Harry Kirton

Walking down the red carpet in his home city will be a proud moment for the Northfield teenager who was cast as the youngest Shelby brother, Finn, at open auditions when he was just 15. Finn has grown up a bit for the third series and has an increasing role to play in the violent and dirty business of being a Peaky Blinder.

(Image: Rober Viglasky)

Jordan Bolger

Jordan plays Isiah, the son of preacher Jeremiah Jesus played by poet Benjamin Zephaniah. He is made welcome by the gang, even if the colour of his skin does not make him so popular in other parts of Birmingham in the 1920s. Isiah is good at boxing and features in a bare knuckle fight in the first episode.

Steven Knight

Peaky Blinders is his baby, the drama he created and based on members of his own Small Heath family. He writes every word of the fantastic dialogue and would like the series to run and run.

15:40Luke Beardsworth

Tom Hardy?

He’s not confirmed but he might be able to travel up to Brum, even though his character Alfie Solomons wouldn’t be seen dead in the city.

Tom has experience of Brummie red carpets, having walked down one for the premiere of Locke, the 2013 film he starred in directed by Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight.

Locke star Tom Hardy at Cineworld, Broad Street, Birmingham.

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Music

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds do a great rendition of Breathless which is a key piece of romantic music after the wedding, with the lovely lyrics “Still your hands, and still your heart, for still your face comes shining through”.

And in the service, the choir sings In the Bleak Midwinter, a nice reference to what might have been Tommy’s final words as he knelt by his grave, waiting to be shot, in the gripping series two finale.

14:53Luke Beardsworth

Rules

Just because it’s a wedding, don’t think Tommy is going to be relaxing too much.

“No cocaine, no sucking petrol out their f***ing cars. And no f***ing fighting,” Tommy tells his family about how to behave around the wedding guests. Of course, most of the rules are quickly broken. It’s a Peaky Blinder wedding, after all.

Look, there's a star!

14:25Luke Beardsworth

Setting the scene

The Mailbox is starting to look ready for the evening.

And Gas Street Social have even created a special drink for the occasion. Somebody try one and let me know what you think.

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Wedding night

Oh yeah, you get to see Cillian Murphy naked.

No we don’t have any pictures of this.

13:59Luke Beardsworth

Who is under the veil?

Let’s take a look at the episode that is actually being shown this evening.

Who’s that girl?

That’s the question on everyone’s lips. Creator Steven Knight admits it’s the one question, after when is it coming back, that everyone has been asking him.

Is it his true love Grace Burgess, the mother of his baby, or is it posh May Carleton, or is it someone else entirely?

The bride is walked down the aisle - but who is underneath that veil?

We first see the bride arriving at the church in a horse and carriage. She is wearing a heavy veil so we can’t see her yet. According to Steven Knight, gypsy tradition was for the bride to be completely covered before being revealed.

Then, four minutes in as thousands of viewers hold their breath, Tommy lifts his bride’s veil in a brilliant TV moment.

13:48Luke Beardsworth

Executive producer

Cillian also had a few extra duties this series, as he is an executive producer as well as the lead.

“I was very flattered to be asked. It’s making formal something I’ve already been doing to a degree, talking about the story and the tone.

“It’s a very collaborative environment.

Cillian Murphy in Peaky Blinders

“It’s my first barbecue as executive producer, trying to look at something objectively and dispassionately. I’m learning to watch myself not through my fingers, looking at the overall structure to the story.

“The other guys did all the heavy lifting. I would hate for it to colour my performance, I never looked at rushes during the shooting, only afterwards.”

13:38Luke Beardsworth

Why Peaky Blinders destroys Cillian Murphy

Cillian, who turns 40 at the end of May, says: “The nature of the character is immersive. It’s an incredibly exhausting character to play.

“Tommy is always on, he never seems to sleep or eat. He’s so resourceful and clever and dynamic, all the things I wish I could be.

“You have to leave reality behind for four months.

“I always come out it destroyed but having felt like we have made something.

Cillian puffing away on one of the 3,000 cigarettes

“This is the most emotionally beaten down I think we have seen Tommy. When his family is threatened, that is when he spins out of control and becomes very, very dangerous.

“I don’t smoke but people did smoke all day and night then. I use herbal rose things, they’re like my five a day!

“I asked the prop guys to count how many we use during a series and it’s 3,000.”

13:19Luke Beardsworth

Hat's the spirit

We’ve been getting into the spirit properly in Birmingham.

Even the bull is keen!

A policeman rides past the Bull in the Bullring

We weren’t going to miss out on the fun, let’s be honest.

12:58Luke Beardsworth

Tunes

Music fans will rejoice at the return of Peaky Blinders.

Apart from the fantastic Red Right Hand as the theme tune, you get artists from Jack White to Royal Blood and Arctic Monkeys featuring.

Getting in the mood...

Love this picture from Gentleman Barbers with our lovely Peaky Blinders pull out in today’s Birmingham Mail.... Oh and what a lovely cap!

12:44Sarah Probert

So who's coming tonight?

We have heard a whisper that Tom Hardy could be on the red carpet at tonight’s premiere. That is just a little bit exciting, isn’t it? Stars will be arriving from 6pm tonight at the Everyman Cinema at Mailbox.

Tom Hardy as Alfie Solomons

12:30Luke Beardsworth

Fashion

As you know, fans are being asked to dress like the Peaky Blinders when they attend the premiere tonight.

The fashion in the show is one of the most important things about it and one of the things that really draws people in.

We put together a guide showing you how to dress like Shelby and the rest.